A Channel 4 documentary that claimed to expose the “scandal” of the disability benefits system has been described as an ...

There are millions of people across the UK who are struggling to pay their energy bills, with little choice but to live in a cold and damp home. And fuel poverty rates are only expected to soar in the ...

It's been dubbed Britain's 'worklessness capital' and hepls underline the uphill battle Sir Keir Starmer faces getting two ...

In the town of Kamuli in eastern Uganda, Annabel Grossman meets women who have set up their own businesses – and explores how ...

The SMC’s data is more accurate and detailed than the UK government’s current definition of poverty, which measures only average income and housing costs. With such a limited calculation ...

Newly published data show that 5.2 million children in the United Kingdom – 36 percent of all children in the country – live in poverty ... being integrated into UK government statistics.

Almost one million pensioner households in England and Wales could face water poverty by 2029/30 unless the UK Government introduces a single social tariff, warns a new report by charity ...

Lucy Powell changed ‘a partridge in a pear tree’ to ‘a prime minister at a lockdown party’, in her version of the festive ...

Over the last two decades, poverty in the UK has stubbornly hovered above 21%, and the recent surge to 24% reveals a worsening crisis. This means an additional 2.4 million people now live in ...

In 2024, the UK's poverty rates have reached their highest levels since the turn of the century, marking a distressing milestone for one of Europe’s largest economies. According to a new report from ...